BANGOR – The Bangor Lumberjacks shook off a frustrating Thursday loss by combining solid starting pitching with standout long relief and timely hitting Friday night.

The result was 7-1 victory over the North Division-leading North Shore Spirit at a soggy Winkin Complex and the Lumberjacks’ seventh win in their last 10 games.

“The best thing about last night’s game is it’s over,” said Bangor manager Kash Beauchamp, who was ejected from a game in which his team made four errors Thursday. “I talked to them last night about making the plays and executing. They capitalized on every error or mistake we need. We executed a lot better tonight.”

The primary executors Friday were starting pitcher Clayton Andrews, reliever Isaac Pavlik, center fielder Jake Whitesides, and newly signed Kazuhiro Kohno.

Andrews (2-2) allowed six hits in five innings, but only one run. Pavlik pitched 3 1/3 innings of one-hit scoreless relief.

Pavlik pitched well enough for the save, but after a fielding error on a possible double-play grounder left runners at first and second with one out, John Boker was brought in to get the last two outs and his second save of the season.

“All that matters is us getting the win,” Pavlik said. “That’s the first time I’ve gone three innings in a long time.”

Whitesides continues to sizzle in the leadoff spot as he hit a 370-foot home run to right in the first, delivered an RBI single in the second, and doubled in the eighth. He also had a stolen base and scored twice.

“He’s done a great job since we moved him there,” Beauchamp said. “He asked what we wanted him to change and we said nothing. I said ‘You don’t have to take more pitches. Be like Rickey Henderson. Lead off the game with a bomb.’ ”

The homer was Whitesides’ sixth of the season.

“Somebody told me if I get a couple more home runs, I can get in the home run derby at the all-star game. I love playing in those things,” Whitesides said with a chuckle.

Bangor scored three in the second for a 4-1 lead on back-to-back doubles by Jose Garcia and Kohno, back-to-back walks by Rolando Bello and Shin Uchino, and Whitesides’ single.

Another run came in the fifth on Garcia’s triple deep to the right center field gap and Kohno’s sacrifice fly.

“I was very relaxed,” Kohno said through teammate and interpreter Hide Misawa. “I had a little jet lag and was a little tired, but I played through it.”

A run in the seventh came courtesy of a two-out Mark Burke single, a Garcia walk, and a throwing error by pitcher Miguel Marichal on a pickoff play to second base that allowed pinch runner Paul Powell to score from second.

Bangor’s last run came in the eighth, again with two outs. Whitesides doubled and then scored on Brad Hargreaves’ liner off Marichal’s glove. The ball continued into shallow left center for a single.

North Shore’s run came on Nelson Teilon’s solo homer to left in the first.

LUMBERJACKS 7, SPIRIT 1

North Shore (29-12) Bangor (22-19)

Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI

Agramonte, 2b 5 0 0 0 Whitesides, cf 4 2

Teilon, 3b 5 1 1 1 Hargreaves, c 4 0 1

Davila, 1b 5 0 1 0 Ross, 3b-1b 3 0 0

Fischer, cf 4 0 1 0 Hammond, dh 5 0 0

Charles, c 4 0 2 0 Burke, 1b 4 0 0

Hastings, dh 4 0 0 0 Powell, 1b-3b 0 1 0

Macchi, rf 3 0 1 0 Garcia, rf 3 2 0

Taylor, lf 1 0 1 0 Kohno, lf 3 1 2

Sanchez, ss 4 0 0 0 Bello, 2b 3 1 0

Uchino, ss 3 0 0 0

Totals 35 1 7 1 Totals 32 7 10 5

North Shore 100 000 000 ? 1

Bangor 130 010 11x ? 7

E?Taylor, Kelly, Marichal; Ross, Uchino; LOB?North Shore 11, Bangor 9; 2B?Whitesides, Garcia; 3B?Garcia; HR?Teilon (5); Whitesides (6); SF?Kohno; SB?Whitesides, Hargreaves

North Shore IP H R ER BB SO

Kelly (L,5-3) 4 6 4 3 5 5

Marichal 4 4 3 2 2 4

Bangor IP H R ER BB SO

Andrews (W,2-2) 5 6 1 1 2 3

Pavlik 3 1/3 1 0 0 2 5

Boker (S,2) 2/3 0 0 0 0 0

WP?Kelly 2; T?2:56; ATT?1,134